Red Pill Solutions

👨‍💻 A Fractional CTO who codes. I both organize reliable cost-efficient software development and solve technical problems saving immense amounts of time & money. As I'm also good with infrastructure, I'm capable of replacing 4 high-paid tech roles ad hoc: Manager/Product Owner, Team Lead, Dev, and DevOps/Infra Engineer.

I specialize in these technologies:
✔️ .NET / MS Stack;
✔️ JavaScript / React.js;
✔️ Cloud / DevOps / Azure / Google Cloud Platform.

But really... having 20 years of development under my belt, I used it all: Python, Ruby, PHP, PowerShell, C++, etc, and if I didn't I might be able to just start using it in a day. If anything above looks relevant, you can borrow my expertise to make a difference on your project.

📌 My direct & indirect clients include dozens of companies, including 2 FAAMG names and a three-letter company starting with "I". 

https://www.redpill.solutions

Fractional CTO & Software Development Consultant

Telagent

Helping the Gen AI startup with technology

Advisory Board Member

Software Development Knowledge Inc.

💡 Providing custom training on Web Development, DevOps, Kubernetes, Azure, and GCP. 

I teach teamwork-related things like Git and DevOps as well as Web Development, mostly JavaScript, React.js, and Node, conducting courses both on-premises and online. Apart from this, I conduct Microsoft official courses as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), specifically on Azure and software development related (AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-220, AZ-303, AZ-304, AZ-305, AZ-400, AZ-500, AI-900, AI-100, 10975, 20480, 20486, 20483). I also teach classes on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and GitHub official courses.

✔ MCT (10 years), 
✔ GCP Authorized Trainer (one of about 600 in the World),
✔ GitHub Accredited Trainer (one of a few hundred in the World and one of the first in the program).

https://www.sdk.services/

Consultant & Trainer

Upwork

Doing Fractional CTO and Developer projects on Upwork
✔ 15 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews
✔ 100% job success with 23 jobs
✔ Doing team management, software audits, coding
✔ Finding right candidates, hiring
🍁 Upwork Canada Group Lead

Upwork Top Rated | Fractional CTO | Software Developer (part-time)

AdaptMS

Helped migrate a Nancy Framework-based ASP.NET Gift Card application to a new platform.

- Represented the "business" side in a "business divorce";
- Maintained good working relationship with the leaving "tech" side;
- Hands-on: set up traffic mirroring and DB reconciliation to make sure that the new platform operates correctly;
- Hands-on: performed Azure cloud migration of the entire product;
- Communicated with all the team and other involved parties, coached other devs, and aligned the stakeholders.

Technical Lead | .NET & Azure Architect

Luxoft

Upskilling a global software outsourcer personell in software development & DevOps. 

The list of courses I conducted and/or authored:

💻 .NET
- ASP.NET MVC 5 basics (author)
- Dependency Management in .NET
- Asynchronous Future in .NET Framework
- Design by Contract in .NET
- C# Tips and Tricks

💻 JavaScript and Web Development
- JavaScript Development
- EcmaScript 2015 
- React.js development (more than 1000 students overall)
- Web Application Testing
- OWASP Top Ten Vulnerabilities

💻 Team work & DevOps
- Team work with Git (author)
- Continuous integration and DevOps for Developers (author)
- Introduction to git
- DevOps basics

Software Development Trainer (part-time)

Kind Robots

Custom software development - intranet and internet sites. 

✔ Full-cycle software development including producing requirements
✔ Mobilizing teams on a per-project basis (e.g. designers, analysts, testers)
✔ ~20 clients
✔ ~30 projects

Software Company Co-Founder |  CEO | CTO

YouDraft

Doing regular audits and consulting. It's not a secret that overseas teams often bill 3x-10x of what they actually do. 
I did
- regular comprehensive development audits with reports;
- advising on how to structure work; 
- consulting on setting up the development management and infrastructure to protect the intellectual property and the product;
- making an overseas team actually do what they bill for; 
- providing an independent code quality and real effort spent perspective.

Software Development Consultant | Fractional CTO

Qwestion

Making a Quora-like platform go online as a tech leader - done.
The client had a problem with the tech team not willing to release. 

- Set up development & management processes, including work planning, tracking and status meetings;
- Managed backlog to make the release possible;
- Hired for the necessary roles;
- Managed a global team of 5;
- Performed high-demanding tasks like internationalizing the entire application in 2 days.

Fractional CTO & Crisis Manager

Refactor-IKS

🦸‍♂️ Dev head in a Microsoft subcontractor.
✔ Led around 20 projects to completion, including ones used by hundreds of thousands of users;
✔ Managed team of 10, both in-house and remote;
✔ Handled 3-7 projects simultaneously.

Technology responsibilities:
- Technical leadership;
- Design and development of skeletal solutions' parts;
- General web development.

Management: 
- Setting up dev process;
- Managing team competencies and development;
- Resource management (hiring etc);
- Capacity planning;
- Presales, including preparing estimates for dozens of projects; 
- Owning financials.

Department Director & Team Lead | CTO Equivalent

Software Developer & Trainer

📢 I help you create an MVP or reach the next goal quickly in a cost-efficient way without upfront costs and with you in control.

🛠️  I'm a dedicated Software Development Lead with 20 years of experience. I provide Fractional CTO services, and consult on Software Development, including Web Development, focusing on .NET and JavaScript ecosystems, and DevOps, mostly Kubernetes, Azure, and GCP. Proficient with AI and Gen AI.

💼 In the past: dozens of completed web and intranet projects, leading teams, and developing software in JavaScript and .NET tech stacks.

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